USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Haight Ashbury is a thriving San Francisco neighborhood where cultures and eras meld together. Made famous by the hippie movement in the 1960’s, Haight Ashbury was once the home to revolutionaries, famous singers (including the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin) and cult leaders.

Detailed explanation-2: -San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was site of the Summer of Love, center of the ‘60s counterculture movement.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Between 1964 and 1968, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury was the center for an exploration of youth cultural protest, the American counterculture movement, informally known as the hippies. This movement grew directly out of the 1950s Beat Movement, focused in nearby North Beach.